The Trouble with Hierarchy
In one of the (many!) amazing "Big Idea" posts that have been going around, Scott Briscoe on Acronym talks about hierarchy. Scott says we shouldn't hate hierarchy--we should hate the lack of leadership fro ...
Category: Culture
Do You Have Time to Care About Learning?
The American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) published an article in their magazine recently by Tony Bingham about informal learning. These are training and development folks, so obviously their career focus ...
It’s All About Trust
Charles Seybold writes a project management blog. Apparently the other day he went to an nifty little workshop filled with startup CEOs and they talked about how to build an effective organizational culture. He was struc ...
It's All About Trust
Charles Seybold writes a project management blog. Apparently the other day he went to an nifty little workshop filled with startup CEOs and they talked about how to build an effective organizational culture. He was struc ...
Authenticity a Buzzword? Try Truth
I heard someone say recently that they were already sick of the word authenticity. It's obviously being discussed a LOT in social media spheres. I've talked about it here as well. I think it's a great word, b ...
Leadership is Not Comfortable
I said last week that I would "push back" against some of the things I learned at ASAE & The Center's CEO Symposium. There were times during the presentations where I felt the speakers made some generic ...
Why Is Your Organization Not Human?
Here's post number two on Gary Hamel's Future of Management. I'm still in the first section of the book where he is talking about the three "meta issues" companies face when trying to actually chang ...
Authority, Leadership, and Truth
I like to push back when people define leadership primarily in terms of the people at the top of the organizational chart. That's authority, not leadership. I define leadership in terms of a system capacity, and I ex ...
Evolving Organizational Identity
Like Joe Gerstandt, I can't let the exquisite post by Maddie Grant about the paradox of identity go unremarked. Maddie was reflecting initially on the paradoxes of identity in the "digital age," where we cr ...
Culture Matters
Joe Gerstandt has done an outstanding series of blog posts about organizational culture. Seriously, I usually just refer people to Ed Schein's book on culture, but if you want to get just as much wisdom (but in only ...